Using photographs and deep neural networks to understand flowering phenology and diversity in mountain meadows
A. John, E. Theobald, N. Cristea, A. Tan, J. HilleRisLambers
This study uses deep learning on crowd-sourced images to quantify flowering species richness in alpine meadows, finding higher richness near the tree line and demonstrating the effectiveness of Mask R-CNN for flower detection.
bioRxiv · Mar 28, 2023Ecology